yep, i had precisely this issue in a previous job, where i tried to build a hacky distributed queue on top of postgres. almost certainly my inexperience with da

yep, i had precisely this issue in a previous job, where i tried to build a hacky distributed queue on top of postgres. almost certainly my inexperience with databases rather than the volume of jobs, but i figured i was being shortsighted trying to roll my own and replaced it with rabbitmq (which we had a hell of a time administering, but that's a different story)